YEAR · 2025 · HACKER NEWS

Hacker News — 2025 Year in Review

Monthly highlights from Hacker News across 2025. 36 sampled stories, each linked to the daily digest it came from.

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January 2025(3 sampled)

  1. UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% (fortune.com)
    2025-01-15
  2. Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023) (apnews.com)
    2025-01-15
  3. GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects (www.gamingonlinux.com)
    2025-01-15

February 2025(3 sampled)

  1. The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports (taxfoundation.org)
    2025-02-15
  2. My Life in Weeks (weeks.ginatrapani.org)
    2025-02-15
  3. New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation (sfstandard.com)
    2025-02-15

March 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials (github.blog)
    2025-03-15
  2. What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017) (medium.com)
    2025-03-15
  3. How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill? (www.cantgetmuchhigher.com)
    2025-03-15

April 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations (old.reddit.com)
    2025-04-15
  2. Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator (filiph.github.io)
    2025-04-15
  3. It's easier than ever to de-censor videos (www.jeffgeerling.com)
    2025-04-15

May 2025(3 sampled)

  1. The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use (sketch.dev)
    2025-05-15
  2. Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment (www.nytimes.com)
    2025-05-15
  3. Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original (www.nytimes.com)
    2025-05-15

June 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) (tim.dierks.org)
    2025-06-15
  2. GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009) (linuxgazette.net)
    2025-06-15
  3. Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi (www.downtowndougbrown.com)
    2025-06-15

July 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Helix Editor 25.07 (helix-editor.com)
    2025-07-15
  2. Encrypting files with passkeys and age (words.filippo.io)
    2025-07-15
  3. KDE's official Roku/Android TV alternative is back from the dead (www.neowin.net)
    2025-07-15

August 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations (www.anthropic.com)
    2025-08-15
  2. Imagen 4 is now generally available (developers.googleblog.com)
    2025-08-15
  3. Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account (edka.io)
    2025-08-15

September 2025(3 sampled)

  1. GPT-5-Codex (openai.com)
    2025-09-15
  2. React is winning by default and slowing innovation (www.lorenstew.art)
    2025-09-15
  3. Hosting a website on a disposable vape (bogdanthegeek.github.io)
    2025-09-15

October 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Getting syntax highlighting wrong (tonsky.me)
    2025-10-15
  2. Claude Haiku 4.5 (www.anthropic.com)
    2025-10-15
  3. I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' (blog.daviddodda.com)
    2025-10-15

November 2025(3 sampled)

  1. FBI Director Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Three Senior Staff (www.propublica.org)
    2025-11-15
  2. Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance (elifesciences.org)
    2025-11-15
  3. Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust (github.com)
    2025-11-15

December 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates (community.letsencrypt.org)
    2025-12-15
  2. “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number (ericdaigle.ca)
    2025-12-15
  3. Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop (blog.vaxry.net)
    2025-12-15
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